Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1903 — Farmers’ Picnic Excursion to Purdue. [ARTICLE]

Farmers’ Picnic Excursion to Purdue.

, ( The annual farmers’ picnic excursion to Lafayette to visit the agricultural experiment station at Purdue University, and the university itself, will be held next Friday, J une 12 th. Arrangements have been made for one and onethird fare round tpp tickets-to Lafayette, on June 11th and 12th, and good returning to und including June 13th. Requests for tickets should be made early so that the loonl agent will have time to aeonre them if he has not already done so.

Guides will meet all trains arriving in Lafayette on June 12th, and oondnot visitors to the Station whioh is located at Purdue University on the west aide of the Wabash river abont a mile and a half from the oity. Street oars run every fifteen minutes from the depots directly to the Station. Upon arriving at the Station, visitors will be shown thiongh the various laboratories and over the farm. The Experiment Station officers will lay aside their regular duties on that day and will be at your servioe to explain the work of the dfferent departments and aid in any way possible to make your trip pleasant and profitable. While the objeot of the excursion is primarily to enable visitors to see the buildings and grounds of the Experiment Station, it will also afford the young men and wofnen of the state an exoellent opportunity to inspect the splendidly equipped laboratories of the University proper whioh enables the institution to give suoh thorough training iu industrial subjects. Ample provisions will be made for the oare of lunoh baskets and wraps, and suitable places for eating luaohes will be provided. Those who do not care to bring Innoh can get meals at the various hotels and restaurants in the city and West Lafayette. Xt is hoped that a large number of farmers and others will avail themselves of this opportunity to visit the Station. Nearly every farmer will find some line of work in progress in whioh he will be especially interested and tfhich he oan inspect with both pleasure and profit. The Agricultural Experiment Station is oondudted sorely for the purpose of aiding the farmer. This is aooomplished principally by the performance of carefully planned experiments directly connected with the agrioulural interests of the state and publishing the results secured. A farm of about one hundred IflNa i»« and thirty aorea is set apart for experimental purposes and on this will be found growing various farm crops under a great many different conditions. There can be seen for example, twenty or thirty different varieties of wheat growing side by side under exaotly the same conditions and offering the best possible means of judging as to the varieties best adapted to Indiana conditions.